. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology, an outline of the structure and classification of birds, and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . nstitution fromJ. G. Bell. The bird became best known in the period, say, 1840-60; the authentic recorddwindles notably after the fifties, and ceases in 1875. The Grand Manan recor
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology, an outline of the structure and classification of birds, and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds . nstitution fromJ. G. Bell. The bird became best known in the period, say, 1840-60; the authentic recorddwindles notably after the fifties, and ceases in 1875. The Grand Manan record of April, 1871,is authentic, though the specimen is not extant. The Michigan record of April 17, 1872 (For-est and Stream, May 4, 1876), is not authentic, neither is the Elmira, N. Y. record of Dec. 12,1878 (Am. Nat. Feb. 1879, p. 128). A plate of the bird forms the well-known vignette on titleof Pennants Arct. Zool. ii, 1785. A pair, adult ^ ? , procured by Daniel Webster, VineyardIsland, Mass., served for Audubons description and plate, Orn. Biogr. iv, 1838, p. 271,pi. 332; for Bairds description, B. N. A. 1858, p. 803; and for mine of 1884, substantiallyas above; these are now in the U. S. Nat. Mus. Nos. 1792 J, 2733 9 ; together with twomounted specimens. No. 61,300 ^, and No. 77,126, the young ^ above said to have beenkilled on Long Island in 1875 — the last known of the species. In England $200 was. Stcllers Duck. •• WiLl i,i Ai .. I), (i. offered for a good pair in 1884. The extinction of ti\e species is credibly believed to havebeen due to extirpation by human agency. HENICONETTA. (Gr. fPiKos, henikos, single, singular, peculiar, particular; ufj-rra,nctla. a duck.) General characters those of Eiders (see Somnteria, beyond),more nearly tlian tlmse of Camptohcmus even, and little diftereiil except in lackinu special gib-bosity of the bill and any unusual shape or outline of the frontal feathers. Bill imt featheredto
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